My day:
First and foremost, I had a few sweet minutes with my Lover online first thing in the morning.
Drove to work, then ran errands. Lots of errands.
Got a money order to pay the rent and dropped it off.
Bought heavy duty jack stands at the auto parts store for J. to be able to work on the vehicles here at home as needed.
Schlepped around the expensive junkyard in Largo while wearing my purple cotton dress and black Birks keeping the junkyard guy company while he pulled a new fender and bumper off a junked Jeep for me. Yes, I have a warped idea of fun. Junkyards are interesting places. This one was quite muddy due to the recent rain. He asked me if I wanted to go hang out around back with him and I said sure why not? It beat sitting in the junk yard office listening to the poor office girl get chewed out rudely by the owner (who is a jerk. :-p ) The whole process took at least an hour or more. The fender is NOT white (rather black, fading to gray) but that’s ok, that’s what body shops and paint booths are for. The bumper is chrome, which does NOT match the one on the rear, which is painted black. That was all they had; out of a dozen or more scrap Jeeps, only 3 had intact bumpers.. and the other 2 had damage of various kinds. suggested I go ahead and start painting quilt patterns on the Jeep now and get over with. I just might. I rather like the idea actually.
Got home, ate lunch, napped for an hour, then back to driving. Picked up my spare pair of glasses from the eyeglass place (I had new lenses put in my old pair of frames, the gold metal ones I had before the rhinestone frames that I have now and adore.) I want to see if having larger lenses (bifocals now, remember) help me to see better or no. I’m thinking they will. I’m not having problems with the new scrip in the rhinestone frames, but they are the smallest frames I’ve ever had.. and I’m used to having a larger field of view. Anyway.
After all that, I picked J. up at work and we headed home.
Stopped at Biff’s, a local 50’s style burger place, because it was Friday night and they had some lovely painted sheet metal in the form of classic cars out front. They do this every Friday night and tonight there were some beauties. We weren’t going to stop but said two words to me as we drove by that made me turn around. Pink. Hearse. ZOMG he wasn’t kidding. It was a 1973 Cadillac hearse with pink flamingo curtains inside and a coffin with a giant pink flamingo inside. The top was solid pink, while the bottom was dark purple maybe? with some nice custom paint that was very hard to see because they got a poorly lit parking spot.
I didn’t take any pics for the same reason. That car was SO me. I almost bought a hearse when i was 16 and I’ve always regretted not buying it. There was also a pale pink VW custom Bug there that’s so me too.. and it’s for sale. Last was a lovely mid 1950s ragtop Bug, all OEM inside, sporting cherry red metal flake paint. That one was NOT for sale. Just as well, I guess. Sure was pretty though.
Got home and B. asked for a ride to Target to pick up a few things. (Remember, I’m the family driver. She does have a license but she hasn’t driven in a couple of years. She used to have a cute little Subaru but the transmission went out in it and it wasn’t worth fixing. She hasn’t had a car since then. )
Home for the night, got some laundry going, scooped the cat litter, and am about to fall into bed. Thought since my Friday Night Dance Party is on, I might crank up the disco while I veg a bit longer. I’ve been home barely 3 hours total since I got out of bed this morning.